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Comment by echelon | Hacker News Reader

"vanity" domains are $200/yr or more

Including "{firstname}.dev"

Nonsense.

If Google's worried about domain squatters, it controls the TLD rules and can come up with a less moneygrab strategy. Perhaps require a Github account and limit to one domain per customer?

FCFS is fairer than extortion.

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require a GitHub account

You do know that there are devs that prefer other code hosting platforms, right? GitHub is a proprietary service that's generally terrible for developers.

> GitHub is a proprietary service that's generally terrible for developers.

In what way? I find it incredibly awesome.

I paid $12 for my .dev domain. I bought it from Google.

Domain names are not one time purchases? Secondly are you referring to monthly or yearly? They sometimes do flash deals which might be why you got it for one year at that price (assuming you paid that yearly). But the discounts usually don't last forever.

You’re probably thinking of premium domains. Most ngTLDs charge more for high-value names to mitigate squatting—and to take a larger piece of the pie.

It was for one year. I just checked and it is set for auto renewal in November and will cost another $12 for another year. It is a 6 letter domain.

Button.dev? ;)

As other commenters have said, they're $12/yr.

Not all of them.

https://support.google.com/domains/answer/6010092#registry

I just checked my Google Domains account, and my .dev domain renews for "$180 plus tax".

The pricing is entirely opaque and you can't find it listed anywhere, but I did find a comment from HN last year that listed several examples:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19201073

Some names cost even more than the $200 I initially cited!

> require a Github account

That requirement would exclude most developers, including myself.

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